IT was a horrifying scene – a desperate mum pleading for help from other passengers, claiming that her baby had stopped breathing on the bus. Her fellow travellers were so traumatised, as they tried ...

A humpback that became stuck in the Baltic seemed to unite a nation in hope. Rescue efforts followed, and then finger-pointing. A humpback that became stuck in the Baltic seemed to unite a nation in ...

Since March, the world has watched live as a humpback whale lay stranded on a sandbank in German waters, far from the North Sea. The stranded humpback whale was found in poor health, tangled in ...

“Timmy,” the young humpback whale at the center of a European rescue effort, was found dead Thursday off the coast of Denmark, officials have confirmed. Authorities identified Timmy — who is also ...

Timmy, the young humpback whale who was stranded for weeks in shallow waters, has been found dead just off Denmark’s coast, according to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, just weeks after a ...

BERLIN (AP) — A humpback whale found dead this week off a Danish island has been identified as the animal released two weeks ago in a spectacular and controversial rescue effort after repeatedly ...

Alan Taylor is a senior editor at The Atlantic.

A rescue team on Saturday released from a barge in the North Sea a humpback whale that had been stranded in shallow waters near Germany since March, witnesses said. Nicknamed Timmy by German media, ...

The humpback whale, stuck for weeks in shallow waters off Germany, was towed to the North Sea in a barge. The story captivated the country. By Jenny Gross A humpback whale that was stranded for weeks ...

After weeks of rescue efforts, a barge carrying an injured humpback whale stranded off the Baltic coast set sail this week to relocate the distressed mammal to deeper oceanic waters. The juvenile male ...